Monday, 3 November 2014

Not going (part 1.)

The evening before I get a text from LE outlining the route for my
cross country. Basically the examiner assigns you a route and payload* and you
are expected to plan everything out as if you were actually going to do the
flight at the time you take off. The navigation planning, the weight and
balance and a flight plan. The first part of your actual flight test is flying
the examiner to your first checkpoint and showing him how you’d determine your
revised ETA and correct your course if needed.

I look at the texts, basically I am to plan a flight for me and 3
female passengers plus 30lb of luggage from City to Lindsay to North Bay.

The first bit can be done the night before, you get out your
charts, you draw the routes in and pick out your check points. Basic measuring
of angles etc can also be done. Anything else needs to be done the next day, as
it is weather dependent.

First hurdle, I have no idea where North Bay (CYYB) is. I know it’s
up north but other than that I’m stumped. Google to the rescue.

The reason I’m finding it so tricky to find is that It’s on the
other side of my chart, literally uncharted territory for me. Bob is keen to
find out my assigned route. I inform him, wailing that “it goes on the other
side of the chart”

1 comment:

The evening before?!? Sheer luxury!!! I walked into a classroom where the PPL cross country scenario was written up on the whiteboard, and we (two fellow candidates and I) were given 30 minutes to plan the cross country. As I was the only one flying a 172 (they were doing their checkrides in 152s) I couldn't even cheat off their numbers! :-)

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